# 2017 Tech4Good awards open for entries

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/28/2017-tech4good-awards-open-entries/
- Published: 2017-03-28T07:41:02+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Nominations for the 2017 AbilityNet Tech4Good awards are open until 8^(th) May.**

 

Entry to the [Tech4Good Awards](https://www.tech4goodawards.com/) is free, and open
to any individual or organisation including charities, social enterprises, public
bodies and businesses.

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This year there are eight award categories to enter, including the new [Comic Relief](http://www.comicrelief.com/)
Tech4Good for Africa Award, for which entrants’ work must be tackling poverty or
social injustice and specifically benefitting people in sub-Saharan Africa.

 

Entrants must be using digital technology to deliver measurable social outcomes 
in a sub-Saharan context to have a chance of winning.

 

The award categories:

 

 * [AbilityNet](https://www.abilitynet.org.uk/) Accessibility Award
 * BT Young Pioneer Award
 * BT Connected Society Award
 * Comic Relief Tech4Good for Africa Award
 * Community Impact Award
 * Digital Health Award
 * Digital Skills Award
 * Tech Volunteer of the Year Award

 

This year’s nominations were opened by 10 year old inventor Arnav Sharma, who won
the Tech4Good People’s and Winner of Winner’s Awards in 2016 for his invention [Asthma Pi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dniuy4-D3M).
He is the youngest ever winner of the Tech4Good awards, and is now working on developing
an app to help people with dementia.

 * **[Huawei launches bursary to help people follow their ambitions](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/02/08/huawei-launches-bursary-help-people-follow-ambitionshuawei-launched-make-possible-bursary-help-people-uk-follow-dreams-including-charitable-ambition/)**(
   8 February 2018)
 * **[Barclays guide aims to help people engage their children in giving](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/06/08/barclays-guide-aims-help-people-engage-children-giving/)**(
   8 June 2018)
 * **[New fund launches to support LGBTQI activism in Asia](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/07/10/new-fund-launches-support-lgbtqi-activism-asia/)**(
   10 July 2018)

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